Review Summary: Between all the chugging and pig squealing there are some mildly enjoyable samples.
Lets Burn Mary Jane is yet another underground deathcore band that has come out of the closet and found some popularity. Mentality Break is their first and hopefully last album. It does have promise but there is very little as all of it is overshadowed by samples.
One of the problems with this album is that half of the three minutes and fifty five seconds it goes for is taken up by samples. This leaves very little time for actual music. They are mildly enjoyable (Zombie Slam!) but really they are just a dumb way of lengthening the already short songs.
The other main problem is the unoriginality. This sounds like nearly every other deathcore band out there with breakdowns occupying all 2 minutes of the music played. They rarely stray from the first three frets of their guitars and when your guitars are tuned at drop A there really isn't much differentiality between those first three frets.
Aside from these things there is also no recognizable bass but what do you expect, it is deathcore. The drums are again quite bland and boring. The only promising part of this album is the fact that the songs have some structure. Sadly that structure goes SAMPLE, BREAKDOWN, SAMPLE WITH CHUG IN THE BACKGROUND.
The thing about these problems is that they are easy to solve. To fix the sampling problem just get rid of them, you don't need them in the first place. To fix the blandness problem just throw in some variety and chage it up a bit. Once you fix that you just need to figure out a structure and then you are pretty much there.
Mentality Break is a bad album but with some tweaking these guys could improve at least a little bit.
